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In May 2014, the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences was granted a hefty fund by the Ford Foundation. Yet the Egyptian government refused to accredit the grant to the institute this year as foreign funding restrictions tightened. Taking matters into their own hands, the Institute is crowd funding as we speak. When you ask around Wekalet El Ghoury, the place is known as المعهد ('The Institute'). Straight, second to the right, first to the left, straight through the…